Alberto Falchetti

Rustic Idyll Alberto Falchetti - younger son of the painter Giuseppe - born in Caluso (TO) in 1878 and died in Caluso in 1951 Oil on plywood. Dimensions: 80 x 70 (with frame) The passion for landscapes made him meet Giuseppe Segantini, of whom he became a friend: Segantini encouraged him to leave the city to paint nature from life. He participated multiple times in Turin exhibitions. In Falchetti's favorite subjects, landscapes and still lifes, the divisionist brushstroke recurs in which pure and uncontaminated nature appears. At the beginning of the twentieth century, his fame expanded by participating in exhibitions in Europe: the ones in Munich in 1909 and 1913 and the one at the Paris Salon in 1914 are remembered. He also participated in almost all the Venice Biennials from 1903 to 1924. He was much appreciated by the upper middle class of his time, which bought his works almost entirely still preserved in private Piedmontese collections. The painting in question perfectly represents his pictorial style in its full-bodied and material brushstroke.